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07 Oct 2023 19:44

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When attending campus classes automatically becomes a fitness workout!

At some point during your academic years, you will likely have been walking extensively, even dashing breathlessly. No, I am not referring to any sports activity, but just the mere schedule of classes that you are required to follow, due to which you would have been walking down long corridors, pelting up and down stairs in haste just so that you would reach the classroom before the teacher's arrival!

In school, we did have a fixed classroom for most subjects, other than for lab work or an Art class, and other co-scholastic activities, for which we would just walk sedately in one line to the room where that specific activity was. On the college and university campuses, though, invariably classes would be spread out, some not necessarily on the same floor or even in the same building. All that moving between classrooms, labs, etc would surely have given you an automatic fitness workout, isn't it?

Do share your fun, breathless experiences!

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#775235

08 Oct 2023 07:02

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A nice observation by the author. Sometime back in our morning walking meets in the park I was discussing almost the similar thing with my senior citizen friends who were asking as how to increase the opportunities of exercising in the advanced age. One of them suggested that in the house itself one should not depend on others for small task like fetching a glass of water for drinking, doing some small help in the kitchen, arranging things and cleaning of book racks or cupboards like that as all those activities constituted some work and an element of exercise. The point was that we should not feel low or inferior in doing some small physical activities in the house as everyone will welcome it and it will help us indirectly in shape of short exercises.
The present thread reminded me all that and I agree that in a campus there are so many opportunities for walking from one place to another and if we take it sportingly then by the evening we would have done a good work-out ourselves.

Knowledge is power.

#775239

08 Oct 2023 13:08

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That is very correct., Our degree college had two campuses. In one campus Physics and languages were taught. On the other campus Chemistry and mathematics were taught. The morning session was on one campus and the afternoon session was on the second campus. The distance is about 2 Km. We all used to go by walking from one campus to the other during lunchtime. That was our walking 6 days a week. During my PG, I stayed in a hostel on the campus and the chemistry department is about 1 Km. Daily I used to go and come back on foot and do 4 km of walking at least 5 days a week. Our high school is almost 1 Km away from our house. Minimum 2 Km we were walking those days. Sometimes we ( I and My sister) started late and to reach school on time we walked very fast. A very good physical exercise I had during my studies.
Cycling is also a good exercise. Many students used to come to the school on cycles those days. But presently there are many transportation facilities. School buses and college buses are coming in front of our houses and our children are getting into them and hence no physical exercise.

drrao
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#775240

08 Oct 2023 13:57

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In the college campus, we do have lot of departments and to cover them from one extreme to the other is definitely a good exercise if we live in the hostels inside the college campus.
We need to ensure that we have to resort to the fitness plan wisely while residing in the campus.
While residing in the college campus, I moved from one end to the other on regular basis to take care of my health.

#775923

30 Nov 2023 13:09

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Won't be deliberating about my school or college days, but at my workplace these days I have to do a lot of cycling as well as walking. Ours is a big manufacturing unit, and the company is spread over hundreds of acres of land. The manufacturing shops and the offices are thus distributed far and wide. The open space between the factories is covered with lush green vegetation with peacocks and various other animals, including reptiles roaming around freely. The department that I am in (maintenance), has a concern with every other shop (manufacturing unit) and department. So during the day, we have to move around a lot between the shops and offices. Motorised vehicles not being allowed (except for battery-operated cycles), we have to move around in cycles or on foot. So all that walking and cycling ensures that we do have enough physical exercise for the day. For this reason, many of my friends who are glued to their office computers or on the production floors, envy our freedom to roam around the manufacturing plant.

Patience and perseverance pays

When attending campus classes automatically becomes a fitness workout!

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